the problem i have right now is that i got no border windows nor any effects ,no matter what i choose in compiz after i close the window when i start it again everything is like i had never been there , everything looks like default even the message CCSM is an advanced tool. Use with caution shows up everytime after i have unticled the message where it says show this message warning next time , but it still appears.

so my problem is that the compiz manager is not taking any of the changes.

I think you are missing the "&" at the end of your command to make compiz independent of the terminal window. Without it it will run in the terminal window and it will terminate when you exit the terminal, just like any other program. So try "compiz --replace &".

If everything works fine after that, you can put "compiz --replace" in your startup and stop marco from starting with mateconf-editor. At least that's how it worked for me.

Honest Mistake wrote:I think you are missing the "&" at the end of your command to make compiz independent of the terminal window. Without it it will run in the terminal window and it will terminate when you exit the terminal, just like any other program. So try "compiz --replace &".

If everything works fine after that, you can put "compiz --replace" in your startup and stop marco from starting with mateconf-editor. At least that's how it worked for me.

thanks now i got different errors , what i don't understand is why it works fine in cinnamon even though as far as i read it's incompatible, it also works fine with ubuntu but with mate i got problems.

look the errors that i get now and the terminal wont return but the good part is that after i close the window compiz still working.

Initializing composite options...doneInitializing opengl options...doneInitializing decor options...doneInitializing resize options...doneInitializing place options...doneInitializing grid options...doneInitializing wobbly options...doneInitializing move options...doneInitializing animation options...doneInitializing winrules options...donecompiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e00090!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e00093!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e00096!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e00099!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e0009c!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e0009f!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e000a2!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e000a5!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e000a8!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e000a8!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x3e000ab!compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.Setting Update "command"Setting Update "minimize_effects"

Meh, I wouldn't be worried too much about error messages if compiz is now working the way it is supposed to (or close to it). Do you have all the functionality you need? Is it stable? If yes, you can then set it up to start automatically and fix that conflict with marco that causes high cpu usage.

Honest Mistake wrote:Meh, I wouldn't be worried too much about error messages if compiz is now working the way it is supposed to (or close to it). Do you have all the functionality you need? Is it stable? If yes, you can then set it up to start automatically and fix that conflict with marco that causes high cpu usage.

thanks just did as you said , fixed the problem with marco and compiz has all the functionality, i didn't need to set ti up to autostart , when i restarted my laptop it was working.thanks again